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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

A recent federal indictment from Los
Angeles alleges that Mher (Mike) Hakopyan, his wife Natalya
Muravyeva, and his ex-wife Alla Kassianova operated incall
prostitution services in the Los Angeles area and recruited women in
Eastern Europe. According to the complaint, the investigation began
in June 2011, when two women from Latvia were detained at LAX en
route to work with this operation.

Though the feds refer to it as a
prostitution operation, I'm not so sure at this point. It looks like
there were a list of incall locations and the services were offered
on various adult business advertising sites. Why am I not so sure?
Well, I have bad memories from the so-called “Orlando sex
trafficking ring” case that turned out to be a conspiracy case that
really was not a conspiracy at all.

See the “Sex Trafficking Trial –
Orlando” label in the blog sidebar. I initially wrote about the
case after reading numerous articles in the Orlando Sentinel
that called it a “sex trafficking case”. However, when I was
later able to access my PACER account, I saw that there was no such
allegation or charge. Crazy, right? Perhaps that is why you need me,
because without me it would still be known as what the Sentinel
called it. Really only my last post on the case remains as all
documents and posts were removed at the request of family members; a
request that I don't usually grant, but did because I felt the
defendants needed to live to forget the fiasco.

Hakopyan et al. is different in that
the entire case is based on the transporting of women from Eastern
Europe to work as prostitutes. Only the business operators are
charged in the case, unlike the Orlando fiasco wherein 12 defendants
were indicted on a list of conspiracy counts.

The complaint is lengthy, but what I
read of the ad descriptions states sensual massage and not
prostitution. What transpired may be a different story. Hakopyan and
Muravyeva are currently in federal custody and have no bonds set.
Alla Kassianova apparently missed the big bust and is somewhere
outside of the US. The complaint discusses a list of locations that
were raided and other interesting facts and allegations. Supposedly
this was a major operation.

Don't mind me – I had to stop
believing anything any agent of state or federal government states
until I see proof.

I have many
documents from a list of cases, some I have never even posted about.
I decided to remove most from the Updates (Documents) page of my
website and had the intention of sharing any or all via Google +. The
idea was that if you wanted documents for a specific case, you only
had to add me to a circle and state your interest and I would create
a circle for each case. However, Google + has not yet been integrated
with Google Drive to allow for this easy sharing.

You are welcome to
contact me via email if you want the PDF documents that I have from
the following cases: